A Valuable Service
Once there was a man who traveled all his life; and as he traveled, he served a valuable purpose in the world. The man was very poor. He had no land; he had no money; he didn’t even have shoes. All he had was a pair of tattered trousers and the contents of their pockets, a ragged shirt and an old cloak. The cloak was his coat and his blanket; on warm days when he needed neither coat nor blanket, it was his pillow when he lay down to sleep. On his bare feet, he walked over meadows and cobblestones,...
